The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-10
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

n | "' e""", III NeutIhi Auut"i eho
toundstion stone has been laid for a
girls school, to be called the Victoria
Jubilee Girls School.
The Princess OF Wales is this year
an exhibitor at the Royal Society Of
|, Painters in Water Colors. She
sends a picture Of Windsor.
The Charming Memorial church, ct
Newport, has elected two women on
its Board Of Trustees. This is an
example which many churches might
profiiably follow.
The women Of Indianapolis are
trying to purify the city. They have
secured q large number Of indict-
ments against owners and keepers OF
Mrs. Livermoore has delivered
more than 800 temperance addresses,
nearly 100 OF these in Boston. For
many years she has Iectured five
nights a week for FIVE months 10 the
year.
| Women have been voting in all
electians in Wyoming for nineteen
years, in Washington Territory for
five years, upon school questions in
fourteen States, upon liquor licenses
/ n two States, in municipal elections
IT years in England, in Scotland,
"a I'd in four Of the Provinces OF
"a NADIA.
Woman suflragistsa believe that
WIN nen are going to be an important
faes Or for gsod in solviag the great
prsA lem Oh human rights" Women
adua themselves human also, and
thstr therefore, human rights apply
TO the III AS much as meu..
The lntcr.0ceau gives its 10000
subssyi bers the sensible article OF Il.
W. Hi gginson, in Harpsr's Bazaar,
which , ,dvises that there should he
"a mos, u cQui 'alence Of married
psrtneys. Not one will, but two,
sad eq.al rghs as in other partner
sAips.
Mrs. Ia yah Barakat, $ talented
Syrian hdy has been in Chicago
lately, inter estiny large audiences, as
she. doe. o very,here. She never
failsto speak for temperance when
opportunity 'ffcrss She has been ap.
pointed vre-l resident of the Worlds
Worucn's q Tristan Temperance
Union for Syr IA.
Mrs Fibre, zee Helley Wischene.
wetsks read . paper upon The Need
OF Special Ira ming in Philauthropic
Work :" at = ecent meeting OF the
CelleHiate AIS mnty' of New York.
Miss Grace III. Dodge, DR.. Hall. OF
Vassar; Mise Woo 3ward, Of Smith
College; Mics 4 ,dgerton, Of Wellcs-
loy; Mrs. Franci Fisher Wood, and
others, 'partie5pa ted in the discussion.
The Women's Educational and In
drstrial Union, OF Buffalo, ". Y,
mr., irving to Ma, 70 two women APP
pointed TO GID tn , vacancies in the
board Of trustees, u the Buffalo State
Insane,klsylun. The last annual re-
port of the asylum showed that 30
out Of 30 patients are women: In
Masssc husetts, n Iaine and Iowa,
women have been made trustees OF
insane asylums,and inevery case with
good results.
II lam asked, 70 Us George viii
liam Curtis, what women want the
ballot for, | apswe r, What do men
want il forr Why do tho British
worbnen az this mo ment 20 urgently
demsLd itp Look nto tho British
laws regulating lab or, aud you will
see Why. They wan / the ballot be-
cause tho lows affe citing labor and
capital, arc nsde | " tho capitalist
class alone, and are therefore, unjust
Mrs. Flo,ence Ke ley Wischese'
wetsky read q pap, " upon THE
Need Of Special Traii Ilng1n Philan-
thropio Work, at a recent nesting
Of the Collegiate All Imup Of New
York Mas Grace III. Dodge, DIR.
Hall Of Vassar, Misi Woodward OF
Smith Collcge, Miss Edgorton OF
Wellesley, Mrs. FIR meas, Fieher
Wood aud others part icipatod in the
discussion.
The Women's Educ atioDal and In.
dustrial URioo, of H;uhalo, ", T.,
are trying 90 have two women. APP
poinaad to ill the va canoies in the
Board OF Trustees of the Buffalo
State Insane Asylum. The last an
nual, report Oi the asylum showei
that 2i0 out Of 3JS patients arc wo-
mop. In Massachusetts 1aiDe aud
Iowa, women have heen made trus-
tees OF insane Asylums, and in. evory
case with good results.
Mrs. Black we'll says that a. Ia
whether a woman would fad cure
for nervous prostration intho whl9l-
POOL Of politics, IL strikes rao that
tho chances are that she w,uld, ]
have never heard anything absui
nervous prostration connected with
the many leading women who ar,
strongly advocating woman suffrage
and whose entire lives are, devoted
70 the worlds activities. The vic.
tins Of nervous prostration are the
eruwels and crochet women tyTihed
J. IN the horoines Of Ma. Hovolls. In
tellectual activity IN the most potent
cure for physical ills. d.
Geo. VIM. Curtis, in Harper
Weekly, has this 10 say d the cues
ton lately asked. Can a hssbant
/, open his wiie's lettorsr Will.
husband aud wife are one 10 oacl
other, they are Two in the eyes o
n other people, and il may well happo'
= that friend will desire 10 impair
something TO t.dlscroct woman whicl
a she would not,iptrnst 10 the babblin
q husband Of that woman. Every III
i must have iis own privacy and u
= own place Of retirement The le.te
r. 10 of all things the most personal an
- intimate thing. It's bloom is gon
!, When another eye sees IL before tll
~ oye for which IL was intended. II
aroma all escapes when Il 70 Err
=, opened by another person. Ga
:, might a. we'll wear second han
10 clothing a. get second hand letio
- Here, then, is a sacred right thi
onght b. be respeoted aud can be n